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Web standards a11y lovegod who leverages synergies at Vivaldi browser. Personal views. RT≠+1.Co-founder Open Web Advocacy (emeritus). Musician @ […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 16h
Just how much longer will UK and Europe kick the can down the road over digital sovereignty, after Comb-over Caligula ordered a ban on US entities making transactions with the International Criminal Court, because its former judge Navi Pillay was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize (and she […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
All jabbed up against winter lurgies, and listening to HMRC's execrable hold music. I always do this at the end of a Friday, as I know I can have a glass of wine soon.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Next they'll saw heads off in front of a stars and stripes flag, or behead them in a public square. www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmy0r96xy…
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Fort Hood shooter's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it," the US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
The Flydubai co-pilot who tried to hijack a flight to Tel Aviv is a former cryptocurrency speculator who four years ago was living with his parents and calling women “rotten meat”... Hammami peppered his diatribes with the language of the manosphere […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
@tomjennings if I had a fistful of money, I'd be in a jacuzzi full of champagne in the Maldives with a number of supermodels.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
@andypiper it's possible I could be found dead in a ditch with 300 sharpened iPads lodged up my arse.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Just 2 hours until I get home. I'd love to tell you what was said, but Chatham House Rules. I think we have it our best shot; I don't think Big Tech Gatekeeper made their case convincingly. It's all EU politics now, which is outside my influence (or interest, tbh).
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Your valiant boy about to head into the European commission to meet a Big Tech Gatekeeper about the insane request by European commie users to run software they choose on devices they own.
Me in front of a big building
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
@EvelynOctavia $$
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Finally getting into the swing of speaking / hearing French again, after bafflong a couple of waiters on my first 2 nights by replying in thai and Turkish. Wish I could stay and practice more.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
In the midst of a wasteland of flaky buttery monstrosities and sweet cakes, I have found a cafe filled with Arabic blokes and elderly French speaking men playing chess where real breakfast is available for 6 Euro.
2 fried eggs, black and green olivew, a warm brown bread roll, some cheese and jet-black coffee
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
It doesn't need to be this way, of course. IT's possible to imagine a world in which someone with hundreds of dollars to spend on a device is treated as adult enough to run the software they choose on it. Crazy, I know.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Brogrammers couldn't wrap their megabrains around not-a-real-language CSS, so decided to reinvent it and fight against the web platform for their own convenience. Who could possibly have predicted it would be crap for users and would need expensive surgery to lance the festering pus?
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Off to see what hideousness passes for breakfast in Europe. Probably "croissant" wallowing lasciviously in hot chocolate, while Marxists read Camus and snort absinthe to the strains of maudlin accordion music.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
@DataKnightmare Thanks! Hand-made for me in Rajasthan.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
I'm staying on Stalingrad Avenue. I hope that isn't some sort of omen about the meeting with The Big Tech.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Paperback is a fast, fully accessible reader for ebooks, documents and audio books, written by a blind developer and tested with NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver and TalkBack. Desktop are free downloads; iOS and Android apps are paid (source is MIT licensed if you would rather build them yourself) […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Zut alors! I'm off to Brussels, home of Magritte, Brel and the only good beer on the continent, for 3 days of synergies with Europeans about Big Tech's abuse of dominance and general stinkiness. Wish me luck, open web fans! Keepez votre fingers crossé.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Meanwhile, in UK political discourse www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/… (Although I may adopt this for regulatory meetings with Big Tech behemoths)
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Chilling out and doing final tweaks to vocal harmonies on the last song for yet-untitled fourth album, before going to Brussels tomorrow for 3 days of meetings. (My previous 3 albums are available at cruellestmonths.com)
cruellestmonths.com
the cruellest months
the cruellest months music project
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Last week I was in Laaahndaahhn at a regulatory/ legal event (recommended: much better lunch than Web events) and got a chance to catch up with Harry Godfrey, Lord of Little Tech Association and interrograte him about how he's pushing against Big Tech in Washington D.C., Trumpistan […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Knackered after a day-long meeting at CMA, MC-ing s special London Web Standards meet-up and then the last train to Birmingham.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Rappin' with regulators
Me in front of a sign saying "Competition and Markets Authority"
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
I'm ay Kilburn tube station, which seems to be the place to buy heroin or participate in a gun fight.
A wall with an embedded street sign "shoot-up hill"
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
See your open web heroes in the actual flesh tomorrow, Laaahndaaahn, free! Gasp in wonder as Big Al Russell, Alex "OWA" Moore, Tommy "The Fish" Fish and Kush "Krusher" Amlani take to the @webstandards stage to spin tales of glory, valour, blood, betrayel, and closely-argued meetings with […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
definitelynotwindows.com
A spoof Windows 11½ home screen with numerous "toast" notifications and a banner saying "Whoa there.
You appear to be downloading another browser.

Microsoft Edge uses the same technology as Chrome, except we're already here and harder to remove.

Use Microsoft Edge

Continue to Chrome anyway
Help us understand why you are rejecting innovation.
Keep Edge
continue anyway"
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Orf to fakkin Laaaaahhhnnndaaaaahhn (you slaaaaaaag) for SINNERgies tonight and a Suitfest tomorrow. (Hopefully I’ve booked a better hotel room than the rabbit hutch last week)
Me looking folorn in a tiny crap hotel room not much wider that the single bed, with rickety furniture and fucking WOODCHIP wallpaper
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS. inoti.fyi
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File Notification Attacks
Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS. Accepted at The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 15-19, 2026 — The Hague, Netherlands File-notification systems tell applications when files change, e.g., opened, closed, written, deleted. With only read permission on a file or directory, an attacker can watch these notifications and reconstruct user behavior. We find generic issues similar on each of Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Someone just mailed me with the subject "London Marathon 2027 applications closing tomorrow". All this surveillance capitalism, and their profiling is so, so wrong.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
"Companies don’t push apps because installing one improves your spiritual wellbeing." webdesignerdepot.com/nobody-wants-y…
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Nobody Wants Your Damn App
Nobody wants another app cluttering their phone—so why does every website keep begging us to install one? The web already perfected the experience: click, load, done. Maybe it’s time we stopped trying to ruin it.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Today marks three years since we released Vivaldi for iOS. Hurray! We released Vivaldi on Android seven years ago. So what explains the iOS delay? Quite simply, Apple caused the delay. Here's a look at how we're working with other browsers and groups to liberate all platforms so you have the […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(min(100%, 22rem), 1fr)); = the best bit of CSS ever. Thank you, new layout algos.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
70% of Americans think that AI is bad for society and 73% of Americans think the costs of datacenters outweigh the benefits, according to a survey www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-i…
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Confidence in Big Tech Continues to Slide news.gallup.com/poll/712436/confide… Confidence in large technology companies has fallen steadily from the 32% recorded when Gallup first […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Exchanging billets-doux with Apple's compliance department, yet again.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
There are no "rogue AIs". Just rogue AI companies. Regulate them hard.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
A tasty shakshuka in a Palestinian cafe before my train. It's been too long since I've had this pleasure.
A shakshuka and two flat breads
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Yay, a rush hour tube ride. It's been a long, long time since I've had this pleasure.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Counsel for Meta now tugging at our heartstrings at how over-regulated they are, and how mean it is that different territories have different regulators, when all they want to do is bring people together and enable a Brotherhood of Man. I'm worried that my laptop might short-circuit in this […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Counsel for Google is telling a heart-rending tale of woe on the stage. Apparently, the UK regulator can impose more conduct requirements in the future, which means that product teams don't know what they can or can't do in UK, and this makes them sad. I'm not a lawyer, but perhaps they could […]
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Suddenly, the skies have darkened - thunder rumbles ominously, owls are screeching, and all the wolves in the City of London are howling in unison. The Competition and Compliance Counsels from Meta and Google have taken the stage.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I'm in a hall with loads of stained glass windows and portraits of Lord mayors and worshipful aldermen of the city, surrounded by people who bill by the nanosecond.
A posh room
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I'm blearily awake in the crappest Hotel room I've stayed in since I backpacker around India, contemplating a luxurious McDonald's breakfast before a day-long regulatory suitfest in a posh part of Laaaaahndahhhn. (Hotel is not in a posh area)
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
On a train to Lahhhhhnndaahhn through the Cotswolds, where there are sheep in green sunny fields and a few of the trees are just beginning to change colour. The seasons turn, winter draws apace, and we're another year closer to death.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
I don't need a JavaScript syntax highlighter, but when I read "Twinkleplop is a syntax highlighter of unspeakable power" I suddenly really want it. twinkleplop.pngwn.at/docs
twinkleplop.pngwn.at
twinkleplop · docs
Documentation for twinkleplop, a syntax highlighter and code authoring toolkit.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
If you thought the departure of Tim Cook would see a new caring "Consent is a human right" Apple, think again. Not-Steve-Either has been in post 10 minutes, and they're forcing 22GB of AI on you. That's the equivalent of 32 shit U2 albums.
macOS version 27 Apple Intelligence 22.28 GB
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
RE: social.lol/@db/117313366685749740 "The AI industrial complex does not do consent. You will use it. You cannot look away, it will be stuffed down your throat and if you say “no” they’ll cut out your tongue … Call me a radical but I’ve chosen not to kowtow to billionaires."
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
I did, however, expect that my feedback on his fashion ensemble would remain private. But he'll Dress to Impress (in CSS 'n' JS) on Oct 1.
Screenshot of Big Al Russell and the title of his talk "Loathsome Choices"
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@owa/11731363843062… Alex Moore! Big Al Russell! Tommy Fish! Kush Amlani! All MC'd by Yrs Truly. It doesn't get more glamorous than this. And it's FREE. Book now, and be adored/ envied by friends, family and co-workers.
mastodon.social
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